Late Antique

Famous quotes containing the words late and/or antique:

“Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
And now their hour is come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)